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When I took my state's required hunter safety course, one of the instructors was an older dude with grey hair and a ponytail who wouldn't look out of place at a Dead & Company concert.
To point out the importance of wearing an orange hat during small game seasons, and also to "be sure of your target and what lies beyond it" he pointed out how much that grey hair and ponytail would look a lot like a squirrel if you only caught a glimpse of it through some brush.
Not saying that's exactly what happened here, the kid doesn't look like he was the grey ponytail type, but the article shook loose that memory in my head.
EDIT: not that I'm ungrateful, but somehow this is now my highest rated comment on Lemmy, and I'm just curious why this one in particular resonated to well.
Fair, I hadn't thought of that but it makes sense. My first thought was that it was a very blatant murder cover up. But ive apparently fallen too deep into fiction if that's what cane to mind first.
You hang around conspiracy theorists much? Maybe too many crime shows on TV? I mean I thought I was cynical, but to have that be the first thing that occurs to you (and it sounds like you were pretty damned sure of it, too) blows me away.
Eh, I just read a lot of grimdark and grimderp stories. The kind where nothing good ever happens and the bad guys always get away with everything just because it would make the main character's life worse. I'm a cashier, not law enforcement, so doesn't matter if my first instinct is skewed if I have other people to make decisions for me.
Do you expect to remain in such a position for the rest of your life? Assuming not, then stepping back from such dark material to gain some more level-headed perspective might be wise.
Let people choose their own path in life.
Not sure how I might've come across as demanding they change. That was not my intent,